Jonathan Blow

People talk about weather. People talk about art or the local politics. They will tell you Miami is vibrant. But the reason a lot of people are moving there is because there's something deeply wrong in Silicon Valley. It's a sickness beyond what this tweet might suggest.https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1389572377806258181 …

This is an angle that gets closer to what I mean when I say there's something deeply wrong, and that SF is sick. Miami is just a projection of these concerns, and most places don't have the problem, and none have it nearly as bad.https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1391117850056744961 …

I think that's correct. My guess is that the Bay Area is full of people who have no meaning in their lives, and don't know of any way to achieve meaning, because their culture has written off all the possibilities. So many people are walking around depressed every day,

but this to them seems normal so they don't notice it.

Asking as a non-US dude -- how does this happen? For most of ROW, the Bay Area is an aspirational place (though I do hear from acquaintances that the infrastructure, streets etc. are apparently kind of dog-shit). Is it the nature of the kinds of work done, or affluenza, or what?

Also, have to say quite a few people replying to the original Solana thread come off like they have no idea how to interact with humans in a natural manner.